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From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
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Subject: Re: Help
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:52:55 GMT
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:09:40 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>
>Help,
>	My root passwd does not work any more. Is there any way to recover from this short of re-installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 RELEASE?

reboot into single usermode... At the boot prompt, enter in a 

-s

	---Mike

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